Firm and Provider News

Annmarie Simeone, Member with the law firm of Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, P.A., has been elected to serve on the New Jersey Women Lawyers' Association Board of Directors as Co-Director of the Women's Leadership Resources Committee for the 2008-09 term. The Women's Leadership Resources Committee engages in statewide efforts to support and promote...

McKool Smith has announced the addition of intellectual property attorney Ann Schofield Baker to lead the firm's national trademark litigation practice.
Ms. Schofield Baker joined the firm as a principal.She has extensive experience handling intellectual property litigation, including many trademark, infringement, unfair competition, and dilution...

Mark Kesslen, member of Lowenstein Sandler PC and chair of the Intellectual Property section of the firm's Tech Group, has been named among the nation's top 50 IP attorneys under age 45. The annual list, published by IP Law and Business magazine, recognizes professionals who have made the biggest impact on intellectual property and IP law.

Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. has announced it has bolstered its wage-and-hour litigation group with the additional of Douglas Weiner, Senior Trial Attorney with the U.S. Department of Labor's New York Regional Solicitor's Office, for New York, New Jersey and Puerto Rico.

Day Pitney LLP has consolidated its Individual Clients Department (ICD) for central Connecticut in West Hartford at the new office center in Blue Back Square's Lexicon building. The office houses 11 lawyers and 19 other professional staff.

Chadbourne & Parke LLP has announced that it has launched a nanotechnologies practice, with a transdisciplinary approach bringing together the expertise of long-established Chadbourne practices. The strategy reflects the needs of clients developing or directly interested in nanotechnology-based products and services in multiple sectors of the global...

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP has recently announced the election of Kevin Ban and Anthony Wang, both in the Firm's Shanghai office, to partnership.
Both attorneys focus on cross-border private equity and M&A transactions and are fluent Mandarin speakers.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has announced the formation of an Office of the Chairman, to be led by current Chairman Jack H. Nusbaum.
The office will include two newly appointed vice chairmen, New York corporate partners Thomas M. Cerabino and Steven J. Gartner. Mr. Cerabino and Mr. Gartner are currently members of the firm's Executive Committee...

Jose Valera, a partner in the global transactions practice of King & Spalding, has been named a winner of the 2008 Burton Awards for Legal Achievement.
Mr. Valera was chosen for his article "Changing Oil and Gas Fiscal and Regulatory Regimes in Latin America." The article appeared in the December 3, 2007, edition of Oil & Gas Journal.
Mr...

Highly experienced trial lawyer and investigator Todd Harrison has joined the partnership at Patton Boggs LLP in its New York office.Mr. Harrison will concentrate his practice in white-collar criminal defense, internal investigations, compliance matters, and complex civil litigation.

Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. has selected Jared Heady, a first-year student at Rutgers School of Law-Newark, as the second Charles J. Walsh Scholar.
In 2006, Sills Cummis & Gross established the Scholar Fund on behalf of the family, friends and colleagues of the late Judge Charles J. Walsh who, prior to his appointment to the Superior Court of...

Louise C. Adamson, a partner in the San Francisco office of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP (K&L Gates), has been certified by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) as a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional (LEED-AP), making Ms. Adamson one of only six California lawyers and 52 lawyers nationwide to...

After more than five years of litigation and 22 months of negotiations, the federal government has agreed to pay $666 million to more than 660 hospitals that sued for back payments related to Medicare disproportionate share hospital funds. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, whose lead counsel was John R. Jacob, represented 70 of the hospitals and...

The firm of Thompson & Knight LLP has announced that partner and Chief Diversity Officer Pauline E. Higgins has been named president of the Association of Law Firm Diversity Professionals (ALFDP).
The ALFDP was established in 2006, and Ms. Higgins will serve a term of two years.

Loeb & Loeb has announced that Jeremy D. Margolis and Robert M. Andalman have joined the firm's Chicago office as partners in the Litigation Department and in the White Collar Criminal Defense, Corporate Compliance and Investigations Group. Both join from Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP where they were partners and Mr. Margolis served as co-chair...

Saul Ewing LLP has announced the addition of L. Oliver Frey to its Philadelphia office as a partner in the Litigation Department. He will concentrate his practice in complex commercial litigation and employment law.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Frey was a shareholder in, and founding member of a Philadelphia-based, mid-sized firm. During his 19-year...

Integreon Managed Solutions, Inc., a global leader in diversifiedknowledge process outsourcing has announced that it has acquired Datum Legal, Inc.,a leading litigation support and electronic data discovery (EDD) company in New York City.Chris Egan, Datum Legals founder and CEO, has been named an Integreon SeniorVice President and will oversee the company...

Recommind, a leading provider of enterprise search, automatic categorization and eDiscovery systems for enterprises and law firms, has announced that Top 15 UK law firm Addleshaw Goddard has chosen its MindServer Enterprise Search platform to facilitate search and information access for 1,500 employees across its offices in London, Leeds and Manchester....

Forthright, a global provider of transaction processing and resolution solutions, has announced its formal entrance into the marketplace as an independent company. Spun off from the National Arbitration Forum in late 2007, Forthright is the nation's premier provider of transaction processing and claims administration services in the dispute resolution...

Eversheds LLP and Tyco International Ltd announced on May 19 that they have further expanded their ground-breaking multi-jurisdiction engagement. In this next phase, innovative new mutual-profit arrangements will be applied to the management of the company's most complex and highest-priority matters.

The Legal Times has named Wiley Rein LLP Copyright Practice Chair, Bruce G. Joseph, one of the capital region's ten "Leading Intellectual Property Lawyers" in the areas of copyright and trademark law. A profile of Mr. Joseph in the paper highlights an impressive career that includes his central participation in legislative and inter-industry policy debates...

William R. Sasso was appointed vice-chair of the Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners. The Board emphasizes the importance of professional responsibility and character in the legal profession, and evaluates the likelihood of an aspiring lawyer's ability to uphold, and commit to, the standards of the profession. It is empowered by the Supreme Court of...

Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, P.A. has recently welcomed four new attorneys.
Bryan Blaney joined the firm as a member of the Litigation and Criminal/White Collar Groups; Jill Lebowitz as senior counsel with the Estate Planning & Administration and Taxation Groups; Brian C. Anscomb as an associate with the Intellectual Property Law Group, and Oren M....